Freud on Sublimation: Reconsiderations

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SUNY Press, 01.01.1992 - 374 Seiten
This book is the only full-length treatment of the relationship between aesthetic truths and psychoanalytic discoveries--of art, artists, and a new concept of sublimation. It provides a radical and unique study of the concept of sublimation and proposes a modest replacement for it. In the first third of the book the author reviews critically the psychoanalytic sources of the concept of sublimation. In the second third he shows how the concept developed from Freud's nineteenth-century notions of perception. In the last third he revises a concept of sublimation using a contemporary theory of perception. In the final chapter he examines four works of literature: short stories of John Cheever, a Japanese novel, portions of Hamlet, and sublimation and perversion in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane.

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Art and the Organization of the Self
11
Freud and the Location of Values
45
11
87
Sublimation and the Mystery of Transformation
93
Origins of Complex Behavior and Sublimation
145
Perception and Emotion in Classical Theory
175
Weiss Langs Stern199
199
From Visual Affordances to Emotional Affordances
209
Emotional Affordances
243
Notes
295
Glossary of Technical Terms
307
Bibliography
319
Index
363
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